The word equestrian is a reference to horseback riding, derived from Latin equester and equus, "horse".
The Bridgewater Bridge and Causeway spans the Derwent River in Tasmania, Australia between Bridgewater and Granton. It consists of a vertical lift bridge and a specially-built causeway connecting the bridge to the east bank of the river. It accommodates a two-lane highway, a single track railway and, on the bridge section, a footpath. As the bridge is the major connector of the Midland Highway on the eastern shore and the Brooker Highway on the western, the lifting of the bridge can cause considerable traffic delays, depending on the time of day and season.
Richard Innes Davey was an Australian actor, director and writer. He was the founder of the Round Earth Company and advocate for the understanding of the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station on Sarah Island on the West Coast of Tasmania.
McGraths Hill is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 53 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury. It is bounded in the north-west by South Creek, shortly before it enters the Hawkesbury River. It is named after James McGrath, an Irish convict transported to Australia aboard the Hercules in 1802, who purchased property in the area around 1813.
Mary Ann Bugg was one of two notable female bushrangers in mid-19th century Australia.
Harry Power (1819–1891) was an Australian bushranger, who at one time had Ned Kelly, another bushranger, serve as his accomplice while a teenager.
Thomas Berwick (1825–1891) was a convict transported to Western Australia. He was one of 280 such convicts from the 9721 convicts transported to the colony to overcome the social stigma of convictism to become schoolteachers.
Francis McNeiss McNeil McCallum was a notorious bushranger during the early part of the Victorian Gold Rush in Australia.
Brett William Backwell is a former Australian rules football player who achieved some international notoriety in 2005 when he had a finger amputated to enable him to continue his chosen sport. Backwell played for Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 1999 to 2001, and won the J. J. Liston Trophy in 2001 and the Magarey Medal in 2006.
American Samoa is administratively divided into three districts and two "unorganized" atolls. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau reckons these five places as county equivalents. Locally, the districts and unorganized atolls are subdivided into 14 counties and 74 villages.
Richard Brooks (c.1765–1833), pioneer New South Wales settler, was born in Devon, England, the son of Henry Brooks, a clergyman of Salcombe Regis and Honoria Hall.
Woolmers Estate is a farming estate located in Longford, Tasmania, founded in 1817 by prominent grazier and member of parliament Thomas Archer. It consists of an 82ha property, including a two-part manor house, coach house, the National Rose Garden, extensive outbuildings and convict cottages and formal gardens. The main house consists of a brick nog weatherboard homestead, built in 1819, with an attached extensive addition in Italiate style, designed by William Archer and built in 1842-1843.
James Hardy Vaux was an English-born convict transported to Australia on three separate occasions. He was the author of Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux including A Vocabulary of the Flash Language, first published in 1819, which is regarded as both the first full length autobiography and first dictionary written in Australia.
The Pestonjee Bomanjee was a wooden sailing ship built in 1834 by James Lang of Dumbarton, Scotland. She was a three-masted wooden barque of 595 tons, 130 feet in length, 31.5 feet in breadth, first owned by John Miller Jnr and Company, Glasgow. Her last-known registered owner in 1861 was Patrick Keith & George Ross, Calcutta.
Cornelius O'Mahony was a Gaelic scholar, teacher, Fenian and staunch supporter of Irish independence. He was tried and convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to prison, only to be later transported to Australia.
Solomon Blay was an English convict transported to the Australian penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. Once his sentence was served, he gained notoriety as a hangman in Hobart, and is believed to have hanged over 200 people in the course of a long career spanning from 1840 to 1891. This made him the longest serving hangman in the British Empire.
Elizabeth Callaghan was a convict born in Ireland in 1802 and shipped to the penal colony in New South Wales at the age of 17 for passing a counterfeit bank note for £1 with intent to defraud the Bank of England. She travelled with 103 other convicts on 6 June 1821 and arrived in Hobart on 7 January 1822. The town of Mount Eliza near Melbourne is named after her.
John Whelan was an English-born bushranger and serial killer operating in the Huon Valley in 1855 in Van Diemen's Land. He was a tall man for his times, standing at 6’1” and of heavy build, and was nicknamed Rocky for the crags and deep pock marks of his face.
Charles Sandys Stuart Shipley Packer (1810–1883) was an Australian classical music composer, born in England. He received sound classical musical training in England. Packer was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to penal transportation to Tasmania in 1839 on the ship Mangles On release, he became a successful teacher and performer
The Saint Vincent sailed on the Australia Run, carrying emigrants or convicts on several voyages, each lasting three to four months duration, between 1836 to 1853. She was the last ship to transport convicts to Tasmania.
